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[-] prole 3 points 1 day ago

If they lived in India, I'm pretty sure they still had one even if they didn't acknowledge it.

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

They would have had one prior to conversion. Social stratification is not an easy thing to shake off and was codified during the colonial era as European powers strongly believed in hierarchies, especially racial / colorist ones. The British in particular gave institutional power to those that were higher caste and criminalized those that were lower caste in a way that was not common prior to that era.

I am familiar with several South Indian Christian communities and there is no persistence of caste there though social stratification does it exist as it does universally.

[-] clot27@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

Interesting. Most of them still inherit their caste even after conversion, maybe it gets diluted with passing generations

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Absolutely, hard to shake a social classification after one or two generations. But those that were converted 1600 years ago dont really have any idea.

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